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WSJ.com to Retain Subscription Component - WSJ.com

Report: iPhones piling up at AT&T stores | One More Thing - CNET News.com

Battelle Turns Down $100 Million Offer For FM Publishing. Decides To Shop Around For a Higher Price.- TechCrunch

Is Google's gamble Wikipedia's nightmare? - iMedia Connection

Bands, fans find new ways to connect - Reuters

The Wiki That Runs a Radio Show - The Globe and Mail

Attributor Grows Customer Base, Adds Sales Leadership - BusinessWire

IAC Buying Major Chunk In HealthCentral; Carlyle, Sequoia & Polaris Also Investing; Total $50M - paidContent.org

Endeca Gets $15M Embrace From Intel, SAP

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Trends

Sector Snap: Online Content Dives - AP via CNN Money
A bad day for Answers.com and other public online publishers. An easy target for panicked investors.

Hundreds of Layoffs Expected at Yahoo - New York Times
Expected cutbacks, WSJ reports also that Yahoo Worlds brand effort has been cut, Yahoo! Answers to be managed by Europe.

Yahoo, Please Put Up A Fight - GigaOM
Om Malik rants about Yahoo's loss of USD 20 billion in market capitalization and points to its need to dominate more market segment verticals. I don't know that this is possible in a highly horizontal brand like Yahoo's built around traditional media aggregation. More later on ContentBlogger.

CNET Board Fights Takeover - Trading Markets|
While public media stocks get dumped, private holdings are still very much in play.

Revisiting Googlezon: The Future of the News Media - Portfolio.com
The creators of the famous EPIC video in 2004 that predicted the fall of major media outlets reflect on how they got some things right, but underestimated the role of social media in democratizing content.

Proposal to extend Euro copyright dies - Boing Boing
European copyright will not be extended to U.S. standards. A good thing, encourages publishers to innovate and to create more valuable new content.

IP Addresses Are Personal Data, E.U. Regulator Says - Washington Post
The EU. muddies the waters on privacy issues.

HBO launches Web service in 2 markets - ContentAgenda.com
More than 375 movies on demand via the broadband Web. HBO's preparing for the death of the cable format.

The Digg Story Doesn’t Sell Anymore - Jeffro2pt0.com
Social bookmarking sites are having problems, there's not enough community policing and editorial control in most to ensure quality. Better to stick with your real-world friends' bookmarks in Facebook oftentimes.

Tribune reporters, now on Facebook - Reuters MediaFile
"The dangers of YouTube and Facebook." Man, what a gap in consciousness.

LinkedIn chairman hints at IPO in 2009 - ValleyWag
An acquisition is ruled out for now. Seems counterintuitive, but with LinkedIn's extraordinary growth as of late perhaps it's not altogether unthinkable to go IPO next year.

Search, Content Processing, and the Great Database Controversy - Beyond Search
Stephen Arnold contemplates the future of the database in an era in which the world is a database.

The Only Way For Journalists To Understand The Web Is To Use It - Publishing 2.0
Good compare-and-contrast of journalism styles between blog-oriented publishing and traditional print-oriented publishing.

How Free And Paid Approaches Do Complement Each Other - Robin Good
"Freemium" debate from a fresh angle - good take.

Streaming Ads Driving Users Away From Content: Report - paidContent.org
Younger people are more tolerant, but don't recall much of them.

YouTube Community Council Provides Update - WebProNews
More social media portals are opening up to user groups that provide input on both features and policies.

Handpicked Video - RobinGood.TV
Robin Good TV has changed his focus to aggregating video clips from sources not normally highlighted in online news. Good model that should be incorporated into other social media aggregation services.

Cool Tools

Orchestr8 Widgetizes Content with New Clipping Tool - Mashable
This looks to be very, very interesting on the surface - in essence turn any Web page into a platform for a personal or shared mashup. Will explore.

Pownce goes live - Download Squad
A Web-only alternative to Twitter. Kind of an oxymoron, but interesting nevertheless.

Deals, Partnerships and Sales

Publicis, Google reveal digital ad collaboration - Reuters via CNET News.com
Google eyes French ad partner.

ProQuest acquires RefWorks
Good acquisition to help ProQuest build a more effective social network of collaborative researchers.

B2B Newsletter Firm FierceMarkets Bought By Questex Media - paidContent.org
Sounds like a pretty good match, FierceMarkets will provide good infrastructure for events marketing.

Alfresco Secures $9 Million in Series C Funding Led by SAP Ventures - PR Newswire
More than USD 19 million now backing this open source content management startup.

Products

Plaxo Pulse Optimized for 4 Million iPhones - Mashable
Plaxo pushes platform integration. Socialware is supplanting hardware as the common denominator for communication.

Alacra Launches Premium Content Ad Network - PR Web
Clever use of online ad technology to put premium content in context, sharing revenues from purchased research with advertisers. Pay-per-action with a twist. Good stuff. - post by jblossom

Pitt's university press to test demand for digital publishing - AP
Be still, o my heart. How daring.

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Media Biz Recession fears hit media stocks hard - CNN Money

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• With a presidential campaign year ahead cable TV ads are likely to be strong, offsetting general media weakness. - post by jblossom

Rumormonger: The coming online-ad apocalypse - ValleyWag

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• Yes, Virginia, there will be an online ad recession - and it's already been hitting Google. - post by jblossom

Dueling Stats: Yahoo, Google Vie For Top Site - Internet News

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• Would someone please come up with ome consistent online metrics? - post by jblossom

Directors, Studios Reach ‘Tentative’ Three-Year Deal; Residual Rate For Paid Downloads ‘Doubled’ - paidContent.org

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• The guilds know where revenues are moving and they want their share. - post by jblossom

Google finding success in D.C.; The company is beginning to flex some lobbying muscle. - ContentAgenda

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• Google is learning the Washington game pretty well, just in time to take on the FCC's broadband auction. - post by jblossom

Internet 'significant in 14 or 15 years time' until then the paper makes the money, claims Sun editor - Journalism.co.uk

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• 'Gads, some print folks are still pretty darn dense... - post by jblossom

Supreme Court Declines To Hear Orphan Works Case - Library Journal

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• Brewster Kahle is denied his challenge to extended copyrights - for now. - post by jblossom

New York Times, big in Bucharest - MediaFile

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• The NY Times, like other major news brands, will be focusing on broader global revenues to offset domestic markets stagnation. - post by jblossom

Next-Generation Digital Set-Top Boxes will be able to Play Content from Other Devices in the Home - Business Wire

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• Everybody seems to want to have a finger in controlling the distribution of media in a networked environment - and Macrovision is there with the others trying to become the all-purpose content server. - post by jblossom

Global Voices Online » An Introductory Guide to Global Citizen Media

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• Interesting case studies highlighting how people around the world are using social media to change their lives. - post by jblossom

Exclusive: Digg's secret editors - Valleywag

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• Social media news bookmarking sites are democratic. Except when they aren't. Turns out that editors are important after all. - post by jblossom

Content Meets the Purchase Funnel - ClickZ

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• Heidi provides a nice outline of how to ensure that you have the right content all the way through a purchasing process. - post by jblossom

Organic Content and the Printed Book - Sacred Vapor

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• Rightfully points out that eBooks are really not very innovative, just digital packaging of static content. When the standard package includes user-generated content and dynamic content then "organic" books will be more interesting. Agreed. - post by jblossom

Three Reasons Content Companies Need To Embrace Social Media - Social Media Today

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• In case you needed a crash course. - post by jblossom

Digging Deeper::Traditional Media Ready to Elevate the Conversation Online -- with Moderation - MediaShift

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• Good overview of how news organizations are finally getting with the program on moderating comments on their content. "Big" revelation: maybe registration isn't needed. - post by jblossom

IPod: Put Wikipedia on your iPod - Lifehacker

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• The iPod/iPhone platform gets more rich content, but at 750MB it's a bit of a squeeze. - post by jblossom

Mobifusion Partners with Encyclopaedia Britannica to Bring the Most Trusted Information Source to Mobile Phones - PalmAddicts

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• Good content, bad integration compared to Wikipedia on iPhone - post by jblossom

flickr2iPhone - Museum of Modern Betas

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• More iPhone content - making photo sharing easy. - post by jblossom

Social Networks Optimized For The iPhone - Mashable

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• Do Facebook right on your mobile. Social media's zoning in on mobile platforms more effectively. - post by jblossom

AskMeNow - eliminate brain fog with instant text answers - Download Squad

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• Neat - send an SMS text message to 27563 with a question, get the answer texted back. Good for 411 info, directions, maps, stock quotes, weather, flights, etc. - post by jblossom

Microsoft to serve ads on financial site EDGAR - Reuters

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• A content for advertising deal that gives EDGAR Online access to better ad inventory and Microsoft access to high-quality financial content - post by jblossom

Flickr brings tagging to vintage images - CNET News

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• Really neat project - get the world to categorize content for the Library of Congress. Content Nation as the world's librarians. - post by jblossom

Microsoft names Tony Scott as information chief

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• From Disney to Microsoft - underscoring their need to become more like Apple and get a chokehold on controlling in-home content distribution. - post by jblossom

Professional Social Networks, Inc. Launches First Professional Social Network for Chief Information Officers - PR Newswire

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• Locking up socicaal networks via functional verticals - a smart move that many publishers will be asking themselves why they hadn't taken a few years from now. - post by jblossom

Why watermarking will never replace DRM - Ars Technica

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• Some interesting arguments that watermarking needs to have some more what's-in-it-for-me motivation to become a more powerful alternative to DRM. Misses the point of watermarking, though: it should be used to increase marketing opportunities, not to prosecute. - post by jblossom

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Facebook buying Plaxo?: VentureBeat

• Earlier rumors seem to be solidifying, more on ContentBlogger in a bit. It's a logical match.

FCC Approves Google For Wireless Auction: WebProNews

• The event that just might change everything that we've assumed about both Web content and telecommunications.

AP Sues AHN Media For Copyright Infringement: paidContent.org

• Same M.O. as Moreover/Verisign suit: target companies who are trying to extract premium revenues.
  

2008 - The rise of social media 'super advocates': Netimperative

• New report from Experian - I think that the concept is spot on, and will keep people busy in 2008 and beyond.
  

Candidates Rethink Web Strategy: AdWeek

• This is the year in which candidates have struggled to influence conversational content on the Web, as their messages compete not only for broadcast bandwidth but also online attention bandwidth. Doing online right is still not the key fulcrum to a success .

Trying to fine-tune Yahoo: NYTimes via CNET News

• Yahoo is beginning to find a "bottom" of sorts, at least in terms of its oftentimes negative publicity and shifting management structure. It's becoming the brand destination of choice, the usability champion and in general is filling the role of best general online aggregator. But they will need to find more content applications that are segment leaders to build more growth.

Bloggers Bring in Ad Revenue: WSJ Online (subscription)

• It's not just weblogs, just about anyone with a little motivation can build valuable content that can generate ad revenues. Publishers need to look at aggregating social media more effectively.

Thomson-Reuters Deal to Complete in Q2: AP via Topix

• The U.S. regulators are pushing to complete in the same timeframe as the EU. A done deal, but in a rapidly decaying financial marketplace will the deal turn out to be a longer-term investment than anticipated originally?

Samsung trademarks "SyncPaper" -- e-book reader on the way?: Engadget

• The name has the concept right, at least. The eBook battle is far from over.

American Marketing Association releases new definition of marketing: BtoB Magazine

• “Marketing is the activity, set of institutions, and processes for creating, communicating, delivering, and exchanging offerings that have value for customers, clients, partners, and society at large.” Sounds an awful lot like our definition of content...

ProQuest Announces Aggregated Full-Text Database for Libraries: Information Today

• ProQuest solidifes its position as the all-purpose default licensed content sources for the library set.

Open access publishing takes off in India: Indian Muslims

• Given India's level of innovation growth, the potential for open access publications powering that growth is a potentially ominous sign for traditional publishers.

The flow of information at the Googleplex: Official Google Blog

• Interesting demo of how Google's prediction technology can work. Is Google headed towards analysing many different kinds of trends with this technology - including financial markets?

Macworld2008 - Steve Jobs keynote speech leaked?: Pocket-lint.co.uk

• Wikipedia has been an increasingly important force in breaking news, but now news leaks enter the fray. Appropriate when you come to think of it, it's a free-for-all in terms of publishing and the editing community can verify at will. A handy thing for the person wanting to leak anonymously when the essential content is valid but unconfirmable.

EU launches new Microsoft probes: BBC News

• Old battle, new chapter - coming at a very bad time for Redmond. You'd think that Microsoft would have detached IE from its OS a long time ago, but unfortunately Vista is the by-product of a strategy that may no longer fit the realities of what Microsoft needs to accomplish to service the content industry effectively.

myExperiment: "myExperiment makes it really easy to find, use and share scientific workflows and other research objects, and to build communities."

• A really interesting social media workflow tool, will be investigating this further.

Thomson Scientific Launches Journal Citation Forum Dedicated to Discussion About Citation-Based Research Evaluation: BusinessWire

• This is a very positive development, aggregators need to start creating conversations about their markets about where and how citation-based research can benefit from new approaches to peer-reviewed content.
  

Nature Publishing Group and Sermo Partner to Help Physicians Access, Interpret, and Contribute to Current Medical Research: Business Wire

• Sermo is a very interesting closed community of practicing physicians sharing information and insights, this makes for a very interesting marriage of content and community. We'll be watching this.

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